He remembered:
'it may be 30,000 years after the birth of moderncivilization,
evolutionary time.'

She paced herself, saying: 'perhaps
it is current standard time.'

He said, 'you mean based
on Coordinated Universal Time as opposed to anational uniform time,
referred to in International Legal Time, anddetermined by measuring
the distance east or west of Greenwich, England.'

She
considered his remark before saying: 'it could be that we are at thebeginning of a new cycle of development, biological time.'

He shifted position, then said: 'we may not know for a million
light-years,astronomical time, or even for the amount of time it
takes light to reach theEarth from the optical limit of the
universe.'

She reflected, 'It may have happened
already.'

He experienced a delayed reaction: 'it is
something we may only be able toobserve experimentally within a
billionth of a second, atomic time.'

She said, 'It may
begin today or tonight, Earth time, or when lightningstrikes a dry
forest, geophysical time.'

He said, 'or at least before
the next 26 million-year mass extinction cycle,geospheric time. Or
perhaps after the next ice age.'